Just an update on the previous thread about MetaFilter. It seems my IP fell in the range of Matt’s list of banned IP addresses. A brief email and all is well now.

Somebody’s being funny with MetaFilter. It’s redirecting to Plastic.

Rebecca’s book comes out in June. I am still unsure what to make of it, but I’m interested to see what it has to say.

The W3C has published its Current Patent Practice. They are still taking comments on this, so get yours in now before the policy is finalized.

Pigeon theory teaser.

Pigeons as interdimensional beings. Discuss.

A few pigeon related links.

• Stoopid Pigeon
• Bunch of loony birds
• God as Pigeon
• Bloody hell, it’s a Pigeon

From Merriam-Webster via nubbin we find the word frigorific. A whole new connotation is born. From now on it is to be used as the contraction of friggin’ and terrific, as in “That was just frigorific!”

My friends, we must increase the regularity of recurrence of morphemes such as these in our daily orations.

jo thenetstar is gone completely at this point. I hope everything is ok.

I know it’s been a while, but there’s a new collection of photos up. I am planning on making an actual photo section soon, so look for that in the near future.

noah’s getting married. “Married?” “Yeah, married! Sheesh!”

This is great news for noah and he is receiving lots of good wishes. I’m happy to add my voice to the chorus of well-wishers. Congrats noah!

In a recent article at Web Techniques called Raise Your Standards, Molly E. Holzschlag discusses web standards and why you should know, understand, and implement them where appropriate. She even mentions learning to read the DTDs to increase your understanding of the markup you are using.

It’s a good article. It makes a good case. Molly is an honored and influential member of the web community. What’s ironic, is that in light of her article, I checked Molly’s site in the W3C validator and found that as of this writing, it doesn’t validate. Isn’t it ironic … don’t ya’ think? [via zeldman]

In fact I find it more and more. I visit site after site, that claims validation of one sort or another and find that they don’t validate. They mean well. Sometimes it’s just a simple error and sometimes it’s laziness. More often it seems that it’s a lack of really knowing or understanding the specification. And while it’s good to see more sites validating, and personal sites leading the way, I’d hate to see people jumping on the bandwagon without really understanding what they’re getting themselves into. I certainly don’t mean to say that any of the sites mentioned here do that. Just that if people want to start using standards, they need to understand them before they start claiming they use them.

Molly’s article is laudable in this regard, but the work doesn’t stop once we’ve made our sites standards compliant. We need to keep after it.